Applications are now open for Venture Leaders Life Sciences roadshow 2019
The Venture Leaders - the members of the Swiss National Startup Team - have a clear-cut goal. They envision themselves as global players and want to take the first step to their global expansion. The Venture Leaders’ startup development program is specifically structured to help them achieve these goals.
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Application deadline: 04.03.2019This intense journey offers 10 selected entrepreneurs an accelerated learning curve and a solid network through their exchanges with their peers in the team, as well as market exposure, feedback from investors and experts, and hands-on business development.
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The Venture Leaders Life Sciences team of 2018
For the past 18 years, Swiss National Startup Teams have traveled to Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, China to dive into the exciting entrepreneurial scene of such high-level entrepreneurial hubs, helping more than 360 entrepreneurs to build their vision and achieve success. Several of them belong to the best Swiss startups today, such as Ava, Bestmile, Climeworks, Flyability, Lunaphore, Piavita, L.E.S.S., InSphero, Get Your Guide and many more.
Venture Leaders Life Sciences 2019
Become a member of Venture Leaders Life Sciences 2019 – the «Swiss National Startup Team». Only the top 10 selected startups will have the unique chance to experience this intense 1-week business development program (value of CHF 10,000). A unique and exclusive opportunity to meet top-notch investors and industry leaders in Boston and build an exceptional business network. Boston is the hotsport for MedTech and BioTech startups in the US.
«Venture Leaders has been an incredible experience for SUN bioscience. Boston is a hotbed for Life Sciences and Health innovation and the chance to experience this environment in a one week full-time schedule is mind-opening.» Sylke Hoehel, CEO and co-founder of Sun Bioscience, Venture Leaders 2016 (Personalized medicine)
«venturelab programs made me understand the value of going global from the start. We now count the 15 world biggest pharma and biotech companies as our clients.» Jan Lichtenberg, CEO and co-founder of InSphero, Venture Leaders 2010 (3D microtissues)
«Venture Leaders gave us a stepping stone to the Boston life sciences ecosystem in one week only and saved us months in our business development.» Tomas de Wouters, CEO and co-founder PharmaBiome, Venture Leaders 2016 (Treatment of intestinal diseases)
«Venture Leaders exposed us to top VCs in the Boston area. It is just incredible how much feedback and amazing contacts we could collect in a single week of time.» Andrea Maesani, CEO and co-founder of Intento, Venture Leaders 2016 (Wearable solution for the rehabilitation of paralyzed stroke patients)
Application deadline: 04.03.2019Applicants eligible to participate:
- Founding and managing members of technology-based Swiss startups
- Ready to grow their business in the US with international investors
- Building a global technology startup
This is your chance to gain the support, finance and network needed to conquer the global technology market.
Climeworks AG: Capturing CO2 from air
Capturing CO2 from air with the world’s first commercial carbon removal technology. Our direct air capture plants remove CO2 from the atmosphere to supply to customers and to unlock a negative emissio... Read more
Flyability SA: Drone-based inspection solutions
Flyability is a Swiss company building solutions for the inspection and exploration of indoor, inaccessible, and confined spaces. By allowing drones to be used safely in the most complex indoor spaces... Read more
GetYourGuide AG: Booking website for tours and activities
GetYourGuide is a leading global online marketplace to discover and book experiences worth traveling for. Travelers can use GetYourGuide to find things to do in more than 18,000 cities, including tour... Read more
InSphero AG: Market leader in 3D cell culture
InSphero is a global leader in scalable, reliable, and reproducible 3D cell culture technology and solutions for drug safety and efficacy testing. Based in Switzerland, the European hub for advancing ... Read more
L.E.S.S. SA: Nano active fiber lighting systems
L.E.S.S. SA (“Light Efficient SystemS”) has proven itself as a serious alternative to today’s LEDs by delivering ultra-thin, -bright and -uniform lighting systems to their customers. These key assets,... Read more
Lunaphore Technologies SA: Tumor analysis platform
Lunaphore is disrupting tissue diagnostics field by fundamentally changing the time and resource driven nature of diagnostic assays on tumor sections. Just like the fast sequencing technologies have m... Read more
Piavita AG: Daily assistant for equine veterinarians
Piavita AG is a Zurich-based medtech start-up aiming at transforming the veterinary industry. The Piavet System provides veterinarians an easy, comprehensive and high-precision vital sign monitoring ... Read more